DALLAS: An Iraqi man who fled violence in his homeland and was reunited with his wife in the United States had been in Texas just three weeks when he was fatally shot while taking photos of his first snowfall, his father-in-law said.

Ahmed Al-Jumaili had saved money for more than a year for the move by providing Internet connections to Iraqi homes, according to Mohammed Altaae. Al-Jumaili was killed by gunfire last week while playing in a rare Dallas snowfall with his wife and brother-in-law at their apartment complex.

Dallas police Maj. Jeff Cotner says investigators are searching for four men in their late teens or early 20s seen on surveillance video walking from the complex last Wednesday. It’s unclear if Al-Jamaili, 36, was targeted or if the suspects haphazardly scattered shots across the parking lot of the complex. He died early Thursday morning at a hospital.

“The family was taking photos,” Cotner said. “That’s the first time they had seen snow. A pretty snowfall brings out the child in all of us.”

Al-Jamaili and his wife, Zahraa Altaie, had been married just a month before she moved to Dallas, leaving behind strife in Iraq. She had settled with family in an area of Dallas with a concentration of immigrants, particularly from the Middle East. Al-Jamaili arrived in February and the couple was reunited, Altaae said.

“For a young man and a young woman, oh God, so many dreams together,” Altaae said. “They wanted to have children and educate them well. It was the dreams of young people.”

He described Al-Jumaili as a man trying to do right by his family, as someone who was quick with a smile and faster with a joke.